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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/06/2026

Thank you @andrewmarchand.bsky.social and @theathletic.com. He has been a he worst part of introducing people to soccer since he started showing up in tv. It’s dated, it’s out of place, and every day he speaks for American soccer we stray further from his Spin Doctor denim kit glory days.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 21/04/2026

Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation “Every Knee Shall Bend: Leadership and Christian Nationalist Framing in Give Him 15.” Thank you to everyone who attended and supported me throughout this journey.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/04/2026

Delighted to announce that I have been awarded the Graduate Research Prize by the Midwest Region American Academy of Religion at the annual conference in Cincinnati. My presentation and paper was titled “An Appeal to Heaven: Spiritual Warfare Rhetoric, and Democratic Strain in Digital Ministry.“

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You don’t get to add “but” to this sentence.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 15/03/2026

Always a good time judging the OCLRE Ohio High School Mock Trial competition, but being able to participate in my first Championship Round judges panel was quite a treat. Congratulations to Archbishop Hoban and St. Xavier on advancing to the finals.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 09/03/2026

Another early morning flight CMH > STL > MSP.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 06/03/2026

I think about this @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social video about Psalm 109 at least once a day. It brings me so much joy. youtu.be/PySJfZ4QVGk?...

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Psalm 109 is the biggest hater

YouTube video by John Green

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 12/02/2026

I’m happy to share that I’ve was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the national Jesuit honor society, last week in Omaha. I’m grateful for the mentors, colleagues, and students who have shaped my work and made this recognition possible.

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Section Chair @jlkucinskas.bsky.social joined a panel in the Netherlands on administrative ethics. The session examined the moral responsibility of civil servants in liberal democracies, 40 years after Dennis Thompson’s landmark PAR article. Organized by The Netherlands Institute of Governance.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 12/11/2025

As a former campaign comms person seeing this email makes me think “there but for the grace of God, go I”

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We met up with @sssreligion.bsky.social recently in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ask "What Are You Working On?" Meet emerging scholars and familiar faces working on all things religious scholarship!

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 06/11/2025

Collegeville, MN rules so hard y'all.

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I think I just experienced the most engaging and theoretically impressive presidential address in my career from @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social at the annual meeting for the @sssreligion.bsky.social. Legit masterful. Wish y'all could have experienced it.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 28/10/2025

Hello! I'm coming up from the dissertation bunker to say that if you will be at SSSR I'll be putting together some fun Bluesky content with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social for the @asareligion.bsky.social account. COME TELL US WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON. We'd love to amplify some voices.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position specializing in the sociology of religion. We are particularly interested in a theoretically engaged scholar whose work addresses religious pluralism in complex modern societies, the relationship between religion, civic engagement, and democratic political cultures, the social and economic impact of religion from a cultural and historical perspective. Relevant questions may include but are not limited to: how does religion shape cultural and political conflicts? How does religion relate not only to political participation but to the shaping of collectives? How do different understandings of the sacred inform the development of, and dispute over, morality?

For additional information about our dynamic department, please visit https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/. For questions regarding this position, please contact Isaac Reed, Search Chair, at iar2c@virginia.edu.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 10/10/2025

The nice folks at @npr.org gave me a minute of their air to talk about Dilexi Te. Listen to: Pope Leo XIV is drawing the world's attention to poverty - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5563...

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🔊 Listen Now: Pope Leo XIV is drawing the world's attention to poverty

All Things Considered on NPR One | 4:19

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 09/10/2025

Many of you know how much @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social’s work shaped my research on spiritual warfare. His book The Violent Take It By Force is essential reading.

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The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy

The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 09/10/2025

Pope Leo has given us his first teaching document today. It gives no comfort to the Napa Institute, billionaires, or anybody who wants a powerful or integralist church. This below is the takeaway. We go on in Francis's direction. share.google/jLb2vAGT1c57...

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Every Knee Shall Bend @eksb.org · 09/10/2025

Intercessors for America’s “Propaganda Report” warns believers to spot manipulation—then models it. A civics lesson turns into spiritual warfare, complete with demons, distrust, and a link to partisan media. Read @andrewmackey.com’s newest here:

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Faith, Fear, and the Free Gift of Propaganda

Intercessors for America’s “Propaganda Special Report” repackages media literacy as a weapon of spiritual warfare and political distrust.

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"The White House has taken an action that is sweeping in its rhetoric yet almost certainly empty of formal legal effect." Such great work on #antifa by Thomas Brzozowski, shedding light on a critically important (and thorny) question for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 02/10/2025

Live look at the header of state.gov

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 01/10/2025

Always impressed by @julthomson.bsky.social’s work (giving all us doctoral candidates a good name!) With Mark Rozell they just published an important piece on the global challenges of protecting religious freedom for Ethos. PDF in English here czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/et...

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 01/10/2025

This is my 16th time this year at a Midway layover and every time I walk around and then just get a Billy Goat Tavern cheezborger.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 01/10/2025

Big fan of no context Pope Leo content.

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Leo continued: "Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty,' is not really pro-life. Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion, but I'm in favor of the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life."

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Wading into Durbin controversy, Pope Leo shows himself attuned to US debates

"Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion, but I'm in favor of the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life." the pontiff said.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 30/09/2025

To military brass, Trump called cities “training grounds.” In Chicago and Washington, the Church proclaimed “we are not afraid.” Fear vs. hope in the public square. Today in @eksb.org.

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The Politics of Fear and the Liturgy of Hope

Trump’s Quantico spectacle contrasts with a People’s Mass in Chicago and Cardinal McElroy’s call for neighbor-love. Fear isolates. Hope gathers.

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

NYT features @ryanburge.bsky.social on why the left lacks a Charlie Kirk. Drawing on years of research in religion & politics, he explains why the GOP’s religious base has no parallel among Democrats.

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Opinion | Why There Won’t Be a Charlie Kirk of the Left

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 26/09/2025

When facts are erased and faith claims take their place, empathy is recast as sin and politics becomes holy war. This essay in @eksb.org asks what it means to keep “picking up serpents” and whether friendship and service can still heal a poisoned public square.

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Picking Up Serpents

How Christian nationalist rhetoric recasts facts as faith claims, why empathy is under attack, and why servant leadership and friendship offer a democratic alternative.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Compare the White House tweet w/ the contents page of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (w/ @profsamperry.bsky.social) Resonant.

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If Kirk was a champion of free speech, than it seems the worst way to honor his legacy is to silence anyone for what they said about him, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

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The responses to Charlie Kirk's murder were sadly predictable and anemic

If Kirk was a champion of free speech, than it seems the worst way to honor his legacy is to silence anyone for what they said about him, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 23/09/2025

Delighted to have the incredible insights of @tessstarman.bsky.social and Ron Hopson in today’s @eksb.org. Check it out!

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

As it says in The West Wing...

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 19/09/2025

This is so needed to be said right now.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 19/09/2025

I returned to the wasteland of X to capture these screenshots from the official channels, please read today’s @eksb.org on the religious imagery coming from official government channels to make that sacrifice worthy. I also think it’s a pretty interesting look at the scholarship and these posts.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 19/09/2025

Great birthday meal tonight! I’ve now reached the age of the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/09/2025

Enjoyed this well written and sourced piece by @rns.org and @fiona-ndre.bsky.social with great insights from @briankaylor.bsky.social. Must read if you’re researching #christiannationalism

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